At one point (some long time ago), I remember LGPL was compatible with Apache. What version of LGPL is this dependency using? --Guergana
-----Original Message----- From: Chen, Pei [mailto:pei.c...@childrens.harvard.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 11:43 AM To: dev@ctakes.apache.org Subject: RE: YTEX depends on trove4j? LGPL issue Steve, This is a good catch! I was pretty sure 3rd party libs were checked but somehow this may have been missed. I noticed it's in the convenience binary distro as well. We need to remove this; I'll create a Jira. VJ, could you confirm- I actually don't think we use trove4j in ytex? ctakes-ytex/pom.xml --Pei > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Bethard [mailto:steven.beth...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:40 AM > To: dev@ctakes.apache.org > Subject: YTEX depends on trove4j? LGPL issue > > It seems that YTEX depends on trove4j which is LGPL [1], but > "LGPL-licensed works must not be included in Apache products" [2]. > Have the YTEX dependencies been reviewed for licensing issues? (I only > stumbled upon the trove issue via a version conflict in other code.) > > Steve > > [1] http://trove4j.sourceforge.net/html/license.html > [2] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
